Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 8 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Firefox for Android. This release appears to be a relatively minor update. Perhaps the main feature of this update is the ability for user control over third-party addons. "At Mozilla, we think you should be in control, so we are disabling add-ons installed by third parties without your permission and letting you pick the ones you want to keep." A detailed technical description of this new Firefox release can be found in the release notes.

Firefox release + 1 now means simply that it has been six weeks since the previous Firefox release. Release + 1 will have whatever new features that Mozilla has been able to incorporate, test and stabilize since the previous release six weeks ago.

This is the same approach as many major projects have undertaken. KDE, for example, releases a minor update every month, and a new version every six months. The current release is KDE SC 4.7.3. KDE 4.7.3 was released on November 2nd, 2011.